Re: What is the future of Compiler technology?

"Paulo Matos" <pocmatos@gmail.com> writes:


| [I don't think I've ever seen an application where the parser took
| enough time to worry about. Lexer performance is much more important
| since the lexer is the only part of the compiler that has to look at
| each character of the input program. -John]


From experience, the performance of the GCC/g++ *parser* had worried
and continue to worry users and corporate that base their system
compilers on it.


--
                                                                                                              Gabriel Dos Reis
                                                                                      gdr@integrable-solutions.net
[Really? The parser, not the lexer? -John]

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